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Dark blue wrappers, printed paper label. Upper cover very faintly marked, but a nice copy. Edition limited to 115 numbered copies. Memoir of Paul Verlaine (Paul-Marie Verlaine, 1844-1896) first printed in The North American Review, May 1915. "It was on the 29th of April, 1890, that I first met Verlaine. I remember the hot night, the café on the Boulevard Saint-Michel where Havelock Ellis and I had been dining with Charles Morice and a young painter, a friend of his . . . Morice had promised to introduce me to Verlaine, and when dinner was over he turned to me in his gentle and urbane way, bending his great blond head a little, and proposed that we should go to the Café François, where Verlaine was generally to be found. Morice went on talking, and we strolled in the slow French way up the boulevard, through all the noisy, hasty gaiety of the hour; he talked as he always did, in his fluent, ecstatic, rather mad way, full of charm and surprise . . . And there, in the midst of a noisy, laughing company of young men, all drinking, I saw Verlaine, like Pan, I thought, among revelling worshippers. He was smiling benevolently, a large grey hat pushed back on his head, a white scarf round his neck, no collar, the shabbiest of clothes. And my first thought, after a moment's disgust at the company in which he sat, was, What a gentleman!" Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) was Editor of The Savoy for all of its short life, 1895-6. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E100158
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